Eenie Meenie Chili Beanie.Back on January 7th I made this prediction:Feb. 28 Arizona & Michigan - Romney wins both; everyone else quits.I guess you could say I was half right and a week off. It will take until next Tuesday for everyone else...
Twenty-five million tons of debris from the tsunami in Japan last year is heading for the west coast of the U.S. and Canada. That's 25,000,000 tons or 50,000,000,000 pounds. "Most" of it is not radioactive because the wave action of the tsunami swept...
A far flung smorgasbord of information today. I'll bet even my L.A. friends can find something they will enjoy.#1 (Goodbye Japan?)We may yet lose Tokyo. The Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant continues to discharge radiation into the air and the ocean....
One of my friends made the observation the other day that the 2012 election was not at all like the 1964 election. The '64 campaign led the conservative republican candidate Barry Goldwater to lose in a landslide to Lyndon Johnson. My conservative friend's...
While I continue to ponder and wallow in the future of this blog, I thought I might offer up a bit more of the reasoning behind this reevaluation. Don't turn away from this insightful and factual article by Kathy Kelly about her pending excursion to...
I mean this question in all seriousness. If you are a woman how can you possibly consider voting for the republicans? They are quite openly attacking you in thought, word and deed. This does not mean I suggest you vote for Barack, that argument will...
Yes information overload is real.Yes we contribute to it by surfing mindlessly from website to website.I delete dozens of URLs from my history every month, you know all those sites you were going to get to tomorrow. I even found what should have been...
"Be careful who sieves your access to information, it might be me or it could be Rupert Murdock."#1 (Dead or Alive?)I really enjoy having a widely accepted "truth" crushed under the weight of cold, hard facts. Makes my little academic heart go all...
How good is your presidential memory?Really you forgot these two already?I know, I know - Florida!Bob Dole and Jack Kemp '96A one term Bush.George H.W. beat these guys.Buried under the Reagan "Landslide"No reelection for Carter.No one could have won...
I am going to guess that most everyone who comes near this blog knows that the Main Stream Media slant the news. If you don't think that is true or think that only Fox does it but CNN doesn't or vica versa visa flip-flop then I have to question if you...
a perfect photo for todayand a perfect song as wellgo ahead click on itif you haven't got the answer yetFor any comments, please indicate precisely what you mean to s...
In celebration of today's National Football League Super Brawl I offer this memoir of my personal disenchantment with professional sports at all levels. I was born and raised in the midwest. I played sports as a kid, not very well until my growth spurt...
McCarran Airport, Las VegasLondon, UKInvercargill, New ZealandOro Valley, ArizonaSeoul, South Korea'Living Light' is a permanent piece of public art that resembles the map of Seoul. Panels on the installation reveal the real-time air quality of...
Is it me or are some organizations actually beginning to pay attention? First SOPA and now this, before you know it someone will run for president and not lie every time they open their mou...
#1 (Bad Health Care Math)Several famous persons are credited with the quote: "There are three types of lies. Lies, Damned Lies and Statistics." But the problem lies (sorry) not with statistics but with the ignorant or prejudicial use of those numbers. This...
Just to bring you up to date on how the citizens of America Iowa, New Hampshire, South Carolina and Florida have gone about picking a republican to run against the current president.Total Republican Votes in Iowa - 123,000Total Republican Votes...